The Day in Photos (Maay 11, 2011)

ISRAELI - A Russian- War II veteran holds an Israeli flag, after a street parade marking VE Day (Victory in Europe) in Jerusalem, . Scores of Israeli World War II veterans from the former Soviet Union marched together with their families in Jerusalem Wednesday to celebrate the 66th anniversary of the Allies victory over Nazi in 1945.

AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill

ISRAELI - Russian-Israeli World War II veterans march in a street parade marking VE Day (Victory in Europe) in Jerusalem, Scores of World War II veterans from the former Soviet Union marched together with their families in Jerusalem to celebrate the 66th anniversary of the Allies victory over Nazi in 1945. Text on banner reads in Hebrew: Veterans of war against the Nazis, Jerusalem district."

AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill

LIBYA - A rebel soldier stands guard at a windswept check point on the outskirts of Benghazi.

AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

ITALY - Archeologist Valeria d'Aquino, left, supervises the excavations in underground tombs of the Convent of St. Ursula, in Florence,Researchers are looking for the remains of Renaissance woman Lisa Gherardini, believed to have posed for Leonardo Da Vinci's painting "Mona Lisa". They hope to locate and identify bones compatible with Gherardini's, carbon-date them and ultimately extract DNA to compare it with that of Gherardini's descendants. Finally, if skull fragments are found, depending on how well-preserved they are, the group might attempt a facial reconstruction _ and see if the features match that of Leonardo's masterpiece. Poster in the background shows a copy of the "Mona Lisa" painting with writing reading in Italian "Searching for Mona Lisa".

AP Photo/Fabrizio Giovannozzi

VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI waves as he is driven through the crowd during his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square.

AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito

AFGHANISTAN - Officials investigate the scene after an Defense Ministry helicopter crashed when it hit a tree about 300 yards (meters) from the building housing governor Jamalludin Badar in the northeastern province of Nuristan. Mohammed Zareen, a spokesman for the Nuristan government, said the Defense Ministry helicopter was one of four ferrying a unit of the National Intelligence Service's rapid reaction force.

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CHINA - A woman unfurls an umbrella near billboards displaying food items in Beijing. Inflation eased slightly in April as repeated interest rate hikes and other controls began to cool an overheated economy. Consumer prices rose 5.3 percent over a year earlier, driven by an 11.5 percent jump in food costs, data showed.

AP Photo/Ng Han Guan

CHINA - A CRH high speed train runs on the Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed Railway in Shanghai. A long-anticipated high-speed railway between Beijing and Shanghai began trial operations Wednesday, as China persists with its lavish rail spending despite recent losses and scandals.

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CHINA - Chinese woman past by billboards displaying silhouettes of shoppers in Beijing Inflation eased slightly in April as repeated interest rate hikes and other controls began to cool an overheated economy. Consumer prices rose 5.3 percent over a year earlier, driven by an 11.5 percent jump in food costs, data showed.

AP Photo/Ng Han Guan

JAPAN - Flowers are placed around a wooden tablet for victims at a place overlooking the city of Natori, which was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Two months ago today the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and resulting tsunami struck Japan's eastern coast.

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JAPAN - Women watch the aftermath of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture.

AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa

JAPAN - People gather to pray for victims in the town of Minamisanriku, hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Two months ago today the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and resulting tsunami struck Japan's eastern coast.

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GERMANY - John Demjanjuk arrives in his wheelchair at the court building in Munich. Ukrainian-born Demjanjuk, 91, is accused of 28,060 counts of accessory to murder for allegedly serving as a guard in the Nazis' Sobibor death camp.

AP Photo/Matthias Schrader

ENGLAND - A red traffic light frames workers putting up a two-story-high black-and-white photograph of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei outside the Lisson Gallery in London. Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has vanished. But look around, and he seems to be everywhere. More than a month after one of China's best-known contemporary artist was arrested while trying to board a flight to Hong Kong, his name, his face and his art have been popped up across the globe. China's communist rulers have steadfastly refused to say where Ai is or who's holding him. His colleagues in the international art world say they want to make sure he doesn't disappear from view.

AP Photo/Matt Dunham

GREECE - A riot policeman tries to avoid a patrol bomb during a mass demonstration in central Athens as a general strike in the crisis-hit country halted services and disrupted flights. Unions called the strike to protest harsh austerity measures intended to keep the debt-ridden country solvent.

AP Photo/ Petros Giannakouris

GREECE - A protester runs as others are caught by riot police during clashes in Athens, . Riot police made heavy use of tear gas and stun grenades to disperse youths throwing stones and petrol bombs during a march attended by some 20,000 people to protest the government's harsh austerity measures.